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Date: | Thursday 30 July 1964 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Cessna 172B |
Owner/operator: | Bruce Robinson |
Registration: | G-ARFJ |
MSN: | 172-48306 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Barwick-in-Elmet, 7 miles E of Leeds, West Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Leeds Bradford Airport, Yeadon, West Yorkshire (LBA/EGNM) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Written off (damaged beyond repair) 30/7/1964 when crashed near Barwick-in-Elmet, 7 miles east of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Registration G-ARFJ belatedly cancelled by the CAA as "P.W.F.U." ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use") on 12/2/1973 (almost nine years later...). The explanation for this may be that G-ARFJ was retained by Yorkshire Aircraft Ltd., - and re-registered to them on 14 October 1964 - who were based at Yeadon (Leeds-Bradford) airport, as a "hangar queen" (source of spares); it was certainly still present, although far from complete, at Leeds-Bradford from at least 20 March 1965 until January 1968...three and a half years after its accident**.
(**See link #6, which states "Also on the airfield are the remains of the following which are being used for spares: Cessna 172s G-ARFJ, G-ATMO, and G-AVDC")
Sources:
1. CAA: History of G-ARFJ 1961-64:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ARFJ-1.pdf 2. CAA: History of G-ARFJ 1964-73:
https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ARFJ-2.pdf 3.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1199795/ 4. Yorkshire Air News April 1965:
http://s617306976.websitehome.co.uk/AYASMagazines/1965%2004.pdf 5. Yorkshire Air News June 1966:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32778518/1966%2008.pdf 6. Yorkshire Air News February 1968:
http://www.yorkshireairnews.co.uk/images/1968%2002.PDF Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jun-2013 12:35 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
26-Jun-2013 12:42 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
05-Aug-2015 02:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-Aug-2015 10:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |
06-Aug-2015 10:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
02-Mar-2016 19:56 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Apr-2020 20:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
21-Nov-2020 21:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
21-Nov-2020 21:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator] |